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poly_tldr2010-05-26 12:06 pm
citadelspirit.livejournal.com) wrote in poly_tldr2010-05-26 12:06 pm
Stealing money plot?
Does the City have banks, of the monetary variety? I've never heard talk of it, but given the sheer amount of NPC population here, it seems logical that they would. If there is, anyone want to get in on a Salami Slicing/computer hacking plot?
For those who haven't heard of it, salami slicing is the act of stealing the fractions-of-pennies off of people's bank accounts. It sounds trifling, but once you sum that over lots of people, you get pretty good money. And once you do this over a long time, so long as you don't get caught, you get sweet amounts of money.
Reds are fractions of Indigos; if you extrapolate this correctly, you can assume Reds as being the minimum unit of money (kind of like a penny is, for the Americans out there). So if you took .99 of a Red from everyone , you'd end up with a whole lot of Reds if you assume the City has 100,000 residents. SHODAN wants to get her machine on, get supplies and stuff up and running, but working as a human minion is just so beneath her. XD
Anyone else want to get in on this? She'd probably only take 1 or 2 people at best, because after that you would just end up dividing the money into far too few amounts. I'm sure it wouldn't work forever -- we can't have infinite money, right? :P -- but it would supply all involved with enough funds to do something Awesome and possibly Evil.
Computer skilled people desired, because otherwise everyone gets caught, and SHODAN doesn't want to risk that. (Also, she needs access to a good computer, especially one not in public, because she has nothing to start with.)
For those who haven't heard of it, salami slicing is the act of stealing the fractions-of-pennies off of people's bank accounts. It sounds trifling, but once you sum that over lots of people, you get pretty good money. And once you do this over a long time, so long as you don't get caught, you get sweet amounts of money.
Reds are fractions of Indigos; if you extrapolate this correctly, you can assume Reds as being the minimum unit of money (kind of like a penny is, for the Americans out there). So if you took .99 of a Red from everyone , you'd end up with a whole lot of Reds if you assume the City has 100,000 residents. SHODAN wants to get her machine on, get supplies and stuff up and running, but working as a human minion is just so beneath her. XD
Anyone else want to get in on this? She'd probably only take 1 or 2 people at best, because after that you would just end up dividing the money into far too few amounts. I'm sure it wouldn't work forever -- we can't have infinite money, right? :P -- but it would supply all involved with enough funds to do something Awesome and possibly Evil.
Computer skilled people desired, because otherwise everyone gets caught, and SHODAN doesn't want to risk that. (Also, she needs access to a good computer, especially one not in public, because she has nothing to start with.)
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She'd be very hard to catch, since she's an AI, can jack into the net with her brain, and knows computer networks so well because she lived in one, but he could notice something sketchy going on. I doubt he could trace it to her, though -- how absurdly good is he?
I'd rather have her not get caught so quickly, because she has some plots with the police that would be awesome if they happened, but she can't do them if she gets busted for something :P Though it'd be perfectly cool if one person got caught and the other barely scraped out, or whatever.
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I can see him noticing that SOMETHING is happening, and that if he can't track it/break in, then he'll be really suspicious/curious and try harder even though it won't result in anything. He won't care about it except for the challenge it presents, and if it takes away from his goody bag.
Also /waves -- Beckett mun here :3
OH OH what if she sets him up to take the fall to keep her own tracks clean and get him out of her hair?